Minna Ella

Public Lives Dept: "They just look right through me," the 35-year-old says, according to Vancouver Sun. She is one of an estimated 300 women across Canada living their public lives under the cover of this veil and when Minna Ella walks through the department store, she's one of the few women who don't get pestered by clerks trying to dole out free makeup and perfume samples. The reason seems clear. Whenever the mother of four leaves her house in Waterloo, Ont., she covers herself with a niqab, a Muslim veil that covers her from head to toe, leaving a slit for her eyes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.